Process of feeding tags and like articles and mechanism therefor



. m Q J REFOR G. w. HENRY. JR

Nov. 12, 1929.

, PROCESS OF FEEDING TAGS AND LIKE ARTICLES AND MECHANISM THE Filed June 4. 1928 Patented Nov. 12, 1929 stares umrs Mae GEORGE w. HENRY, 3a., 0F PHILADELPHIA,PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO 'soAnBAn COMPANY, or IEHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A conroRA'rr-oN or" rnNNsY'L- VAN IA raoonss OF FEEDING TAGS AND LIKE nnccIcLEsANn- MECHANISM THEREFOR Application filed June 4, 1928. Serial No. 282,741.

In the accompanying drawings:

Fig. 1 is a plan new of sufficient of a tagstrip printing machine to illustrate my 1nvention; r

Fig. 2 is a transverse sectlonal view on the line 22, Fig. 1;

I Fig. 3 is a sectional plan view on the linev 3-3, Fig. 2; and I.

Fig. 4 is a diagrammatic perspectlve view showing the engagement of a tag-strip by the feeding pawl.

The printing machine may be of any suitable type. The platen 1 is attached tO the base 2, and in the platen 1s a'longitudlnal recess 3 of suflicient depth to allow a tag to be bent out of line so as to expose the edge of an adjoining tag, as clearly shown in Fig. 4.

4 is a guide frame between which and the platen the tag-strip is fed, and beyond the platen 1 is a guide 5 consisting of two plates 26 and 27, between which the strip passes after being printed.

6 is a printing chase in which type is lo-. cated. This chase is detachably secured to a lever 7 which is pivoted at 8 and is actuated by power-driven mechanism to cause the type to make an impression upon a tag which 13 locate'ddirectly under the chase.

- 9 is a power-driven wheel mounted in the part 2* of the base, and on the shaft 10 a crank-pin 11' adapted to a connecting rod 12 which is connected at 13 to so that as the wheel is turned the lever will be moved towards or from the platen. Other means of operating this lever may be used the lever 7 Without. ep ing from the essential features of'the invention. V.

14 is a feed pawl, which is so shaped as to engage theedge I) of a tag-a of shown in Fig.4, so as to feed thestrip forward a given distance, the distance, in the present instance, being the widthof a tag. The pawl 14 is pivoted to an arm' 15 lever 18 at 16, and on the pivot 16 is a spring 17 which tends to force the pawl against the platen 1, the spring being of such tension that it' will press against which it bears into the groove 3.

In thediagram shown in Fig. 4,0 is a tag:

which i s pressed' out of alignment by.v the the strip= y that portion'of the tag pawl, so as to expose the edge I) of an ad joining tag a. r V a The lever 18 is pivoted at 19 to the frame of the machine,while the arm 20 of the lever is connected by a link 21 to the lever 7, so that as the lever 7 is moved from the platen 1, the pawl 14 will be moved forward, feeding the tag-strip a distance equal to the width of the tag, so as to present atag in position to be printed on the next, movement of the lever 7.

22 is an inking padpivoted to the frame and connected by a link 23 to the lever 7 so that as the'lever is moved away from the platen, the inking pad will be moved into po 'sition to ink the strip, and as the lever is moved towardsthe' pl withdrawn.

The tag-strip, in the present instance, is of angles to the face of the tag, so that as the ten the pad will be it strip is fed into the machine, the tag rests in the portion 2 of the base. the prongs of the staple p assing through the channel 24 between the lower portion of the platen 1 and the portion 2? of the base, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. The tag-strip can be mounted in any suitable reel at one side of the machine, and the wheel 9 can be driven from an electric motor or other source of power.

In operation, the tag is fed into the machine until it has passed the pawl, when the machine is then set in motion,

cates it will press one tag of the strip out of and as the pawl reciproalignment and into the recess of the platen and will engage the edge of the preceding tag,

feeding the tag forward a given distance, in,

' p the present instance the distance being the tag-strips and the m which the strip verse slits,

gwidth ofone tag. After the I retracted past the edge of the tagzprevioiisly,

printing operati0n,,the pawl is bent out of alignment, pressing the next tag out of alignment, and on the forward move I ment the pawl will again feed the strip fort ward by contacting with the edge of a tag. Iclaim: I c c 1. The process herein described of feeding is partly severed by transa portion of the tag-strip between the slits the section which sees to ex pose the edge of an adjoining section, and'then feeding the strip forward by a feeding device which bears against the ex;

strip directly in advance of posed edge of the is bent outof alignment.

- 2. 1 The process herein described of feeding V tagstrips in a strip section width ofthe tag, said process consisting in pressing a section of the tag out of alignment so as to expose the edge of an adjoiningtagto a feeding means and moving said feeding means forward by pressure exerted against the exposed edge of the strip.

GEORGE WV. HENRY, JR.

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